Open space may refer to:
- In urban planning and conservation ethics
- Landscape, areas of land without human-built structures
- Open space reserve, areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
- Urban open space, urban areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
- Greenway (landscape), a linear chain of open space reserves or a recreational corridor through the same
- Public space, areas left open for the use of the public, such as a piazza, plaza, park, and courtyard
- In business terminology
- A procedure for conducting a business conference:
- Open Space Technology
- Open-space meeting
- Other uses
- Open Space (band), an indie rock band from Minsk, Belarus
- Open Space (BBC TV) BBC TV programme produced by their Community Programme Unit
- Open Space Theatre, a defunct London theatre run by Charles Marowitz
- Open Space (publications), a music publishing collective
Famous quotes containing the words open and/or space:
“We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise,
And the door stood open at our feast,
When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,
And a man with his back to the East.”
—Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)
“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)